BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking

Zadie Smith

Author Zadie Smith talks about dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences.

Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd

Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum on fatherhood, with Matthew Sweet

Alun Withey on beards, Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum on fatherhood. With Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetary and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

Matthew Sweet visits the London Survey, Kew, a cemetery and a hut used by Anzac soldiers.

With a profile of writer Vernon Lee, what it means to lie and popular ideas of the 'coma'.

Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott on Vernon Lee, Harvey Matusow and wartime Senate House

From Fact in Liverpool, Rana Mitter and guests debate mermaids, robots, humans and animals

Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston on their collaboration.